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 Dear
Friends:
It is
really hard to believe that the first
three months of 2014 have passed by so
quickly! My attention has been heavily
focused, as you can expect, on plowing
through our
Romans Bible
Study, and in making
continual progress on the
Messianic Kosher
Helper. I am
certainly pleased to report that I am
now working through my notes on Romans
ch. 10, and that the Tanach passages
relating to the kosher dietary laws are
now finished! We still have quite a ways
to go for each of these publications to
be released, though.
Be
sure to take a look at this month’s
edition of Outreach Israel News. There
is an excerpt from the forthcoming
Messianic Kosher Helper on
Ezekiel 4:9-17,
which many of you will find
enlightening! When you see it, notice
how detailed the level of engagement is
with the topic of
kashrut. When completed, this book is going to set
some new standards for the Messianic
community—certainly with how thorough
things need to be in how we approach
various subjects, whether they be Torah
related or not.
This is a time, and this is a year, when
it has become clearer to me—perhaps more
than ever before—that things are going
to be increasingly more complicated for
the broad Messianic movement.
Religious politics, posturing, and maneuvering
are not going to ever go away. Those
of us who strive to be mature adults,
have to take
a much harder and more difficult road in addressing the issues that face us. As is
seen with the projects that sit before
Outreach Israel Ministries and TNN
Online: we have to address the issues
from the text of Holy Scripture. Whether
it be via a commentary on a book of the
Bible, which might take a year or so to
complete—or via an analysis book of a
topic (like kosher)—this is how progress
for the
Kingdom
of God
gets made!
Until next month…
J.K. McKee
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